Aliki’s latest collection consists of a series of weird and playful pieces of jewelry.
Her interest focuses in transforming selected, inspiring and interesting shaped ‘ready-mades’, into portable and wearable body decoration.
It can be quite fascinating when jewelry is structured around non precious yet intriguing and mysterious 'found objects'. The concept is about ‘recycling’ in a creative way and reinventing everyday objects by adding value and also different meanings/stories to them. Aiming to look from a different point of view and challenge ones perception about the given and the already known.
‘I love misplacing familiar, everyday items and introducing them into completely new irrelevant spaces by changing their identity and function. They become ‘others’ when we encounter them in unexpected places.’
After being enhanced by various materials, the 'objet trouve' is reborn and ready to incarnate its new role.
Plugs, doll’s eyes, headphones get celebrated through jewelry in a quite surreal way.

Aliki Stroumpouli, 1981, Athens, Greece. 


Education:
2001-2006 studies of sculpture with Professor Theodoros Papagiannis and photography with Professor Manolis Babousis, at the ‘Athens School of fine Arts’.
2003-2004 studies of sculpture with Professor Diego Esposito and Alberto Pascuci at the ‘Accademia di belle arti di Brera’ in Milan.
2007-2009 MA studies at the ‘Royal College of Art’ in London, department of Goldsmithing Silversmithing Metalwork and Jewelry with Professors Hans Stofer and Michael Rowe. 

Scholarships-Awards:
2008 ‘Mihelis’ institution scholarship for post-graduate studies.
2009 ‘House of Fraser’ Award 

Group Exhibitions:
2011 Tendence, Frankfurt, Germany
2004 Accademia di belle arti di Brera Milan, Italy. | Eco festival Thisio, Greece | Chatzikiriakio child care institution Piraeus, Greece
2005 International month of photography Athens, Greece.
2006 Cultural center of Tavros, Greece.
2008 ‘Siamo qui’ Florence, Italy | ‘Metal Rocks’ installation at the Victoria & Albert museum London, UK. | ‘human touch’ Gallery Marzee, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
2009 ‘Unconfined’ Cultural centre Melina Athens, Greece | RCA Show, Royal College of Art, London, UK | Electrum gallery, London, UK | ‘We Object’, Ada gallery, London, UK | window display, Kokontozai, London, UK | Gallery Marzee, Nijmegen, Netherlands | Meet Market, Athens, Greece

2012 A Girl's Best Friends: Creative Jewelry Design, Gestalten | Showcase 500 Beaded Jewelry, by Ray Hemachandra, Lark Crafts
2011 The Bead and Wire Jewellery Designer's Bible, by Renata Graham, Quarto Publishing plc

Benaki Museum, Athens

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ʽARTAMʼ gallery Tokyo, Japan

ʽI find everythingʼ Tokyo, Japan

ʽDynamo project spaceʼ gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece

Magma, London, UK

ʽMarianna Stavropoulouʼ Athens, Greece

ʽDustʼ Athens, Greece

ʽFormikaʼ Athens, Greece